These are the late winter days of discontent at New York's voluntary hospitals, when the illness rate soars to seasonal peaks, when doctor competes fiercely with doctor for bed space, when admitting officers are wooed as warmly as hotel clerks in convention time, and when even acutely ill patients must be turned away.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 26, 1969, covering March 3, 1969.

1
The Beatles [White Album]
The Beatles
Last week
1
Peak
1
Weeks
12
2
Yellow Submarine
The Beatles
Last week
3
Peak
2
Weeks
4
3
Wichita Lineman
Glen Campbell
Last week
2
Peak
1
Weeks
16
4
TCB
Diana Ross & The Supremes With The Temptations
Last week
4
Peak
1
Weeks
10
5
Greatest Hits
The Association
Last week
5
Peak
4
Weeks
10

Historical Events

1969Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.^[†]

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space. It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third American human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.

Historical Context for March 3, 1969

In 1969, the world population was approximately 3,619,491,579 people^[†]

Headlines from March 3, 1969

Supersonic Concorde Airliner Successful in 28-Minute Maiden Flight; Concorde Makes a Successful 28-Minute Flight

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Soviet Making Inroads in Arabia, Where West Was Once Strong; Soviet Making Inroads in Arabian Peninsula, Where West Was Once Strong

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Voluntary Hospitals Crowded in the City; Priorities Are Set Up; Voluntary Hospitals Crowded to Crisis Point in City

The Beatles [White Album]

Yellow Submarine

Wichita Lineman

TCB

Greatest Hits

Historical Events

Historical Context for March 3, 1969